Definition of Dicentras

1. dicentra [n] - See also: dicentra

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dicentras

dice
dice box
dice cup
dice run
dice runs
dice snake
dice snakes
dice with death
dicebox
diceboxes
diced
diceless
dicelike
dicelous
dicentra
dicentras (current term)
dicentric
dicentric chromosome
dicentrics
dicephalous
dicephalus
dicephalus diauchenos
dicephalus dipus dibrachius
dicephalus dipus tetrabrachius
dicephalus dipus tribrachius
dicephalus dipygus
dicephalus monauchenos
dicer
dicers
dices

Literary usage of Dicentras

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"The two dicentras ... native dicentras are in cultivation which very greatly resemble each other, and concerning which the books give confused reports. ..."

2. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"... style slender; stigma two-crested. Pod.—Ten to twenty-seeded. The two dicentras, canadensis and cucul- laria, ..."

3. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1884)
"... and they scoured the woods for all the arbutus that gave any promise of opening in time. Clumps of bloodroot, hepáticas, dicentras, dog-tooth violets, ..."

4. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"dicentras are easily cultivated in borders and wild gardens. Two or three kinds can be readily secured from the woods in the East. ..."

5. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"dicentras are easily cultivated in borders and wild gardens. Two kinds can be readily secured from the woods in the E. Try to reproduce the natural ..."

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